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And does this stacking systems on top of one another serve anything but page bloat and rising barrier to entry? I'm of opinion a good system should have few rules, that can be applied to all but most edge cases.

Considering all BECMI modules are set on Mystara, where Half-Elves were not mentioned before 2nd edition, it may not be as many as you think.

Oh right, I misread that feat, it only works for spells. I have adjusted the entry Great math, I added mention of this to Nick's entry in Weapon Mastery and decided it gets its color up to blue.

Wasn't literally the first Half-Elf in D&D canon, Tanis Half-Elven, a product of human male assaulting Elven woman? Also, I felt Half-orcs sole purpose was always to push people away from playing full Orcs, which rubbed me the wrong way.

They also made it clear there will be Greyhawk content, since

The issue with the game characters is that their names weren't included in the game but supplementary materials. But if you showed anyone who is into beat 'em ups this picture And more people would recognize these characters than most others. When it comes to others, I'd rank it like this...

Mystara: Grand Duchy of Karameikos has Duke Stefan Karameikos and his evil cousin, Baron Ludwik Von Hendrix, as well as Aleena the Cleric from red box starter set, and evil wizard Bargle who killed her. Characters involved in A LOT of beginner adventures, they etrenched themselves in hearts of...

I shwoed an example of how D&D Beyond cannot be easily circumvented, to fit your own definition of a chokepoint YOU insisted on. I played by your argument and showed a weakness in it. Acussing me of trying to change definitions when I played by your rules is akin to hiding your head in the sand...

I am talking about problems that will affect everyone, and you are trying really hard to boil it down to "it's jsut a you problem" because it's easier. but D&D Beyond in particular is not easy to circumvent. Say someone runs a game on D&D Beyond. Say you were invited. Say you own books from...

You are really trying to make a general problem a personal issue, so you can dismiss it.

I don't think it's a rhetorical trick to point out your argument was based on a fallacy, just the common thing to do. I didn't even mention that you tried to spin around a straightforward answer I gave you - the term that's only been coined by a single book published in 2022 will not be very...

I'm talking about you trying to dismiss the chokepoint as a concept because it is not more well-known, it's a fallacious argument - a form of reversed appeal at populum

Free Market is a place where you should ALWAYS presume ill-intent. And after OGL debacle in particular, any attempts from WotC at creating or owning a platform should be seen first and foremost as a new scheme to gain control they failed to grab with that craven attempt. That book has been...

A Paladin arrives seeking criminals to arrest, but quickly turns out to be a lawful stupid type, that is a threat to both the party and regular citizens.

No, they don't. Please don't try to reduce my position to some made-up scenarios and armchair psychology I would potentiually be because it would make more people fall for boilingthe frog methd through which chokepoints get you hooked - present great experience, make sure people get too used to...

The thing is, if D&DBeyond becomes, as WotC wants, default way to play d&d, it may put a social pressure to use it if you want to play with people. That is also part of chokepoint's function - become so ubiqitous that not utilizing it means soft social exclusion, as you are put in position where...

WotC sure contributed by buying off D&DBeyond someone else created, same way Elon Musk founded Tesla by buying it off, firing real founders and then blowing tons of money on telling everyone it's his creation. And yes, by definition, both DRiveThruRpg (which DMs Guild is part of) and Netflix...

Would you call mom & pops pizza place anything comparable in size to Kickstarter, WotC's D&DBeyond or the DriveThruRPG (and its subsidiaries) + Roll20 combo? Because each of those is a chokepoint in current rpg market. And you claim that because? I don't see anything awesome into being...

Oh yeah, that sure worked out for streaming. Everyone tried to make a copy of shiny new thing and now they're all slowly dying off one after another, while Netflix remains as dominant force and is jacking up the prices because they know people have nowere to go. Wait.

Again, the difference between monopoly and monopsy - notice that all the names you listed are (relatively for rpg scene) big corproate things.